[mso] Re: Excel - cutting and pasting quotation marks

I followed what Linda and I had assumed Randy's meaning, and the same
results I have achieved as Linda's, ie, no problem from either ways.

I am using Excel 2000 (9.0.3821 SR-1)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, 26 April, 2002 04:33
Subject: [mso] Re: Excel - cutting and pasting quotation marks


>
> Hi Randy.....I just did the exact same thing in Excel 2002 and I didn't
> get double quote marks in the cell with the formula, so I tried it with
> Excel 2000 and it didn't happen there either.
>
> Are you using Excel 97?
>
> Let me be sure I did exactly what you did:
>
> I put this sentence in A1:
> Yes "and" no
>
> Then in A2 I put:
> =A1
>
> Then I copied A1 to notepad and then A2 to notepad and both appeared as
> Yes "and" no
>
> Did I do it right?  If so, then there is definitely something screwy
> going on on your end.  Do you have another text editor you can use
> instead of notepad?  I'm thinking this might be a notepad problem
> instead of an excel problem.  Try downloading another text editor
> (metapad is one I use and it's free....you can find it by doing a search
> at google or somewhere).   If the problem doesn't happen in metapad,
> then the problem is notepad and you might have to reinstall it from your
> Windows CD.  If the same thing happens in metapad, then the problem IS
> with Excel, so let us know and we can proceed....but we need to know
> which version of Excel you have.
>
> Welcome to the group.
>
> Linda
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Arsnick@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:32 PM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Excel - cutting and pasting quotation marks
>
>
>
> * Cell A1 contains the following text:
>
> This is a test of cutting a "quotation" mark.
>
> * Cell A2 contains the following formula:
>
> =A1
>
> I select Cell A1, Cut and Past onto a TEXT EDITOR (note that this in NOT
> back into an excel cell but onto notepad or any other text editor.)  The
> results are the following paste:
>
> This is a test of cutting a "quotation" mark.
>
> This is all good so far - now the troubling part...
>
> I select Cell A2, Cut and Past onto a TEXT EDITOR. The results are the
> following paste:
>
> This is a test of cutting a ""quotation"" mark.
>
> What's up with that!  TWO quotation marks?
>
> I tried making the cell format a TEXT type but that did not help.  Is
> there any way around this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Randy
>
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